The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01

world, history Of all worlds,
| What are our departed astronomers do
ing9 Studying astronomy yet, but not
through the dull lens of earthly observa-
| tory, but with one stroke of wing going
right out to Jupiter aud Mars, and Mercury
and Saturn, aud Orion and the PleiGdeS--
overtaking and passing swiftost comet in
their flight. Herschel died a Christian.
| Have you any doubt about what Herschel
is doing! Isaac Newton died Christian
Have you any doubt about what Isaac New
ton is doings Joseph Henry died Christian
Have you any doubt about what Joseph
Henry is doingi They We're in discussion,
all these astronomers Of earth, about what
| the aurora borealis was, and none of them
could guess. They know now; they have
I been out there to see for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chem
lists doing! Following'out their own science,
following out and following out forever
Since they died they have solved 10000
| questions which once puzzled the earthly
laboratory They stand on the other side
OF the thin wall of electricity, the wall that
seems to divide tho physical from the spir-
| itual world, the thin wall of electricity, so
| thin the wall that ever and anon 1t seems TO
be almost broken through-broken through
from our side 10y telephone and telegraphic
apparatus, broken through from the other
! side by strange influences which men in
their ignorance call spiritualistic mani
| feStations. All that matter cleared
up. Agassiz standing amid his student ex-
| plorerS down in Brazil coming across some
| great novelty in the rocks, taking off his
hat and saying: Gentlemen, let us pray;
we must have divine illumination; we want
wisdom from the Creator to study these
rocks; He made them; let us prey"-Agas-
| siz going right Oh with his studies forever
| and forever.
But what are the men of the law, who in
this world found their chief joy in the legal
| professionalism are they doing nowI
Studying law in n universe where every
thing is controlled by law from flight of
humming bird to fight of world-law, not
dry and hard drudging, but righteous and
magnificent law, before which man and
cherub, and seraph, and archangel, and God
| himself bow The chain of law long
enough to wind around the immensities and
irfnity and eternity Chain OF law What
place to study law, where all the links of
the chain are in the handi
What are our departed Christian friends,
| who in this world had their ioy in the heal
ing art, doing now! Busy ut their old bust
ness. No sickness in heaven but plenty of
| sickness on earth plenty of wounds in the
| different parts OF Gods dominion to be
healed and TO he medicated You cannot
understand why that patient got well after
| all the skillful doctors of New York and
/
| Abercrombie touched im-Abercrombie
who, after many years doctoring the bodies
| and the souls OF people in Scotland went up
| TO God in 1874. Perhaps Abercromble
| touched him.
should not wonder if my old friend Dr.
John Brown, who died in Edinburgh-John
| Brown, the author of "Rab and His
| Friends'-John Brown, who was as humble
| a Christian as he was skilltul physician
| and world-renowned author-I should not
wonder if he had been back again and again
| to see some of his old patients. Those who
had their joy III healing the sickness and
the woes of earth, gone up to heaven, are
come forth again for benignant medica-
| ment.
But what are our friends who found their
chief Joy in conversation and in sociality
doing nowl In brighter conversation there
and in grander sociality.
What place to visit in, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens You
yours( Ives lSingly and queenly. If they want
20 know more particularly about the first
Paradise, they have only to go over and ask
Adam. Ifthey want to know how the sun AMI
the moon halted, they have only TO go over
and ask Joshua If they want TO know
how the storm peted Sodom, they have
only to go over and ask Lot. If they want
TO know more about the arrogance Of Ha-
man, they have only to go over and ask
Mordecai II they want to know how the
Rcd Sea boiled when it was cloven, they
have only to go over and ask Moses. If
they want to know the particulars about the
Bethlehem advent, they have only to go
over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in the balconies
of crystal II they want to know more OF
the particulars of the cruci1xion, they have
only to go over and ask those who were
personal spectators while the mountains
4 q IL, Als.
face ut the spectacle If they want to know
more about the sufferings of the Scotch
Covenanters, they have ouly to go over and
ask Andrew Melville II they want to know
more about the old time revivals, they have
only to go over and ask Whitefield, and
Wesley, and Livingston, and Fletcher, and
Nettleton, and Finney. Oh, what place
10 visit in
If eternity were one minute shorter IL
would not be long enough for such sociality.
Think OF our friends who In this world were
passionately fond Of flowers turned into
Paradise Think of our friends who were
very fond of raising superb fruit turned into
the orchard where each tree has twelve
kinds Of fruit at once, and bearing the fruit
all tine year round!
What are our departed christian friends
doing In heaven, those who on earth found
their chief JOY in tho Gospel ministryi
They are visiting their old congregations.
Most Of those ministers have got their
people around them already. When get
to heaven-as by the grace Of God am des-
tined to 90 to that place-l will come and
see you all Yes, / will come to all the
people to whom have administered in the
Gospel, and TO the million Of souls to whom,
through the kindness of the printing press,
am permitted TO preach every week In this
land and i'm other lands-letters coming
from New Zealand and Australia and utter
most parts of the earth, as well as from near
nations, telling me Of the souls ] have
heped-I will visit them all. ! give them
fair notice. Our departed friends OF the
ministry engaged in that delectable enter
tainment now.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who in all departments of usefulness
were busy, finding their chief joy in doing
good--what are they doing now! Going
right on with the work. John Howard
visiting dungeons; the dead women Of
Northern and Southern battleiields still
abroad looking for the wounded George
Peabody still watching the poor; Thomas
Clark3on still looking after the enslaved--
all OF those who did good on earth buster
since death than before.
The tombstone. not the terminus, but the
starting-post. What are our departed
Christian friends who found their chief joy
in studying God doing nowl Studying God
yet No need OF revelation now, for un-
blanchel they are face 10 face Now they can